Two women charged after 6 children found in car outside Forrest City, Ark., store

A Black Friday shopping trip landed two women in jail on felony charges after a sheriff's deputy found six children left in a car while the women were in a Walmart store in Forrest City, Ark.

At about 11 p.m. Thanksgiving day, the St. Francis County sheriff's deputy called Forrest City police to report that he had found the children, all between the ages of 1 and 7, in a car that wasn't running when he went to check on an alarm going off on a nearby vehicle in the Walmart parking lot.

According to police, the children appeared to be cold. They told officers their mothers' names and police had the two women — identified as Jasmine Adaway, 24, and Daffany Payne, 20 — escorted out of the store.

Police said the women gave conflicting stories as to who was supposed to be in the vehicle with the children. The women, both from Forrest City, were arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a minor first degree, which police said is a felony offense.

Department of Human Services officials were called to assist police with the children, according to a press release from the police department.